Bahá’u’lláh

O thou whose face is turned towards Me!
As soon as thine eyes behold from afar My native city
(Ṭihrán), stand thou and say: I am come to thee
out of the Prison, O Land of Tá, with tidings from
God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting. I announce
unto thee, O mother of the world and fountain
of light unto all its peoples, the tender mercies
of thy Lord, and greet thee in the name of Him Who
is the Eternal Truth, the Knower of things unseen.
I testify that within thee He Who is the Hidden
Name was revealed, and the Unseen Treasure uncovered.
Through thee the secret of all things, be they
of the past or of the future, hath been unfolded.

O Land of Tá! He Who is the Lord of Names remembereth
thee in His glorious station. Thou wert
the Day Spring of the Cause of God, the fountain of
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His Revelation, the manifestation of His Most Great
Name—a Name that hath caused the hearts and
souls of men to tremble. How vast the number of
those men and women, those victims of tyranny, that
have, within thy walls, laid down their lives in the
path of God, and been buried beneath thy dust with
such cruelty as to cause every honored servant of
God to bemoan their plight.